Improvement in loom-temples



S. S. WALKER.

LOOM-TEMPLE.

Patented Nov. 9,1875.

N. PETERS, FNOTOLITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. WALKER, OF GROMPTON, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN .LOOM-TEIV IPLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 169,749, dated November 9,1875 application filed September 10, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: I end of the temple. As this does not materi- Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. WALKER, ally change the working of the temple the of Grompton, in the county of Kent and State Weaver will not notice it sometimes until the of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvedents ot the reed, by continual beating against ment in Temples for Looms, of which the folthe end of the temple, are out into so as to lowing is a specification: break oft. To obviate this I fasten a piece, a, The object of this improvement is to preof rubber or other elastic material on the end vent the end of the temple from. injuring the ot' the temple, where it is kept in place by reed when the catch against which the lathe screwing down the cap of the roller-box upon strikes in pushing back the temple works loose, it; or it may be secured by other means. This or when the face of the lathe where it strikes piece of rubber, being interposed between the the catch is worn away, so as to fail in push- I reed and the end of the temple, prevents any ing the temple in time. It consists in fastendamage to the reed in case the catch works ing on the end of the temple a piece of india- I loose, or the Wearing away of the face of the rubber or other elastic material that will not lathe prevents the temple from being pushed injure the reed when it comes in contact with back in the proper way.

it. What I claim as my invention, and desire Figure 1 is a top view of the temple. Fig. to secure by Letters Patent, is- 2 shows the right-hand side of the same. The combination of the piece a, made of A is the main shank of the temple. 0 is the rubber or other elastic material, with the tem adjustable catch against which thelathe strikes ple, substantially as and for' the purpose herein when heating up the filling. It is necessary for set forth. the construction of a good selvage that the temple should work as close as possible to the SAMUEL WALKER" reed, and frequently the catch 0 works loose, Witnesses: and, failing to push the temple back as the ORRIN D. WIoKRoY, lathe heats up, allows the reed to strike the BENJ. ARNOLD. 

